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Jessica Gurevitch, co-leader of the Climate Interventional Biology working group. Credit: Julia Postol

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Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Ecologist Jessica Gurevitch leads a team that is examining the consequences of using stratospheric aerosol intervention to help cool the Earth as fossil fuel emissions are reduced.

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Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Nicholas Post — the URECA researcher of the month for April 2021 — is a nontraditional, first-generation college student majoring in Anthropology, currently doing an honors thesis on Hominin Phylogenetics under the...

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Computer Science Professor Wins Google Award to Improve Smartphone Accessibility

Stony Brook Computer Science Professor Aruna Balasubramanian has been selected to receive a Google Research Scholar Award for her research on accessibility using wearable devices. Google’s Research Scholar program funds...

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Join Us for the Discovery Prize Competition

You’re invited to the virtual Discovery Prize Competition, where four outstanding faculty finalists will present their research for a chance to receive a $200,000 basic research grant funded by the Stony Brook...

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Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Two Stony Brook University students have been awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP) by the National Science Foundation. Another six SBU students earned honorable mentions. This nationally...

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A new technology to accurately and cost effectively detect nitrogen from wastewater, such as at a sewage plant as the one depicted, is being developed by Stony Brook researchers. Source: Hermann Hammer, Pixabay License

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Scientist Receives SUNY TAF Award for Technology to Advance Septic Systems

Qingzhi Zhu, an associate professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, has received a SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) award for his research to develop a low-cost...

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Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

Deaf history and culture have an advocate at Stony Brook University in Victoria “Tori” Vasta ’21. Diagnosed at any early age to be 95 percent without hearing in her left ear, Vasta is dedicated to raising awareness of...

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Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

Two Stony Brook University faculty have recently received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards. Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for...

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Chemistry Faculty Receive International Prize for Water Research

Benjamin S. Hsiao, distinguished professor, and Priyanka Sharma, research assistant professor, both from the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, received the Creativity Prize — which is awarded to water...

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Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

Shellfish couldn’t have a better friend than Stephen Tomasetti, a doctoral student in marine science at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS). Tomasetti has been studying the effects...

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A Record 149 Stony Brook Medical Students Match to Residencies

Although the Renaissance School of Medicine’s 2021 Match Day for fourth-year medical students remained a virtual event, with a record 149 students receiving their residency assignments, there was much cause for...

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Eight SBU Students Receive New SUNY Graduate Award

The Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) award provides flexible funds for research expenses, professional development and supplemental stipend support.

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Stony Brook MFA Students Sweep Television Writing Fellowships

MFA in Television Writing first-year student Mallory Baysek won in the Drama category and second-year student Galen Foote won for Comedy.

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Left to right (details): Stuart Balius, Marta Baumiller, Yifei Cheng, Annemarie Waugh

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MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

"Four: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021" presents new work by Stony Brook's graduating Master of Fine Arts students Stuart Balius, Marta Baumiller, Yifei Cheng and Annemarie Waugh.

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Sloths, rodents and primates — some of the largest and smallest mammals on Caribbean islands — are among those most vulnerable to extinction. Credit: David Rini, Johns Hopkins University

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Study on Caribbean Mammal Extinctions Helps Guide Conservation Strategies

Information from historical, archaeological and recent fossil records must inform current-day conservation, or else we risk losing these remarkable species forever.

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2021 Graduate School Award Winners

The winners of the 2021 Graduate School Awards for students, faculty and staff represent the very best of Stony Brook, and they will be recognized at the School's Annual Awards Virtual Celebration.

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Study Shows Mars’ Early Climate Was Intermittently Warm

Samples from the Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission, may help to reveal evidence of Mars' climate changes during its existence and possible signs of previous life.

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Student Entrepreneurs Rise to WolfieTank Challenge

While college is a stepping stone to greater things for many people, a growing number of Stony Brook students have dreams that include launching businesses of their own, some even while still in school. WolfieTank —...

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Category - Faculty/Student Spotlights

Should We Use Technology to Slow Global Warming?

Nontraditional Anthropology Undergrad Researches Human Evolution

Computer Science Professor Wins Google Award to Improve Smartphone Accessibility

Join Us for the Discovery Prize Competition

Two Stony Brook Students Win Prestigious NSF-GRFP Fellowships

Scientist Receives SUNY TAF Award for Technology to Advance Septic Systems

Student Helping Interpret Deaf Culture on Campus

Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards

Chemistry Faculty Receive International Prize for Water Research

Doctoral Student Working to Restore Shellfish Population

A Record 149 Stony Brook Medical Students Match to Residencies

MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021 at Zuccaire Gallery

Student Entrepreneurs Rise to WolfieTank Challenge

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